Resonance     journal of science education

August 2005      Volume 10  Number 8
 
Editorial
Editor's Column  
Priti Shankar
Article-in-a-Box
Theodore von Kármán – Rocket Scientist
Jaywant H Arakeri
  GENERAL ARTICLES
06 Dynamics of the Sun-Earth-Moon System
S M Alladin and G M Ballabh
25 A Stroll down Kármán Street
Raghuraman N Govardhan and O N Ramesh
38 Classical Sets and Non-Classical Sets: An Overview
Sumita Basu
49 Brownian Motion Problem: Random Walk and
Beyond
Shama Sharma and Vishwamittar
67 The Challenge of Fluid Flow
The Diversity of Flow Phenomena
Roddam Narasimha
CLASSROOM
80 An Appreciation of Free Radical Chemistry
Part 5. Free Radicals in Atmospheric Chemistry
G Nagendrappa
Research News
91 Lung Surfactant
The Indispensable Component of Respiratory Mechanics
Shweta Saxena
CLASSICS
97
 Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Theodore von Kármán
Information and Announcements
103 Refresher Course on Physics of the Atmosphere
Inside Back Cover
Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)
Front Cover Back Cover


Kármán vortex street visualized by injecting fluorocein dye and a sheet of green laser light.
(Courtesy: Aerospace Engineering Department, IISc).

Theodore von Kármán
(1881 – 1963)

(Illustration: Subhankar Biswas)

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